Transporting-receptacle.



IPATENTED JUNE 16 G. H. ORONK.

TRANSPORTING REGEPTAULE.

APPLIGATION FILED APR- 1. 1907.

1 7VVE/VTOR A TTORNE YS W [INESSES CHARLES H. OItONK, OF CURTIS, NEBRASKA.

TRANSPORTING-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 16, 1908.

Application filed April 1, 1907. Serial No. 365,775.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. CnoNK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Curtis, in the county of Frontier and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Transporting- Receptacle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a transporting receptacle for carrying breakable and other delicate commodities, such as eggs, fruit, vegetables, glassware, crockery, etc., and has for its object to provide a receptacle for the purpose described which shall give, a yielding resilient support to its contents, said yielding support being so arranged that it will be cumulative in its operation by bringing successively into action a plurality of resilient members as the weight in the receptacle increases.

To this end the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of the transporting receptacle, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the resilient supporting devices.

Similar numerals of reference indicate the sameparts in all of the figures.

The numeral 1 indicates a base plate, here shown in the form of a thin flat ring but it may be made in any other shape desired. Riveted or otherwise secured to the base plate 1 are four guide uprights or standards 9 and 3, 3 equally spaced around the base, the standards 2, 2 being opposite each other and the standards 3, 3 similarly arranged, the whole forming a carrying frame. At or near the upper end of each standard is rigidly fastened a hook, those hooks 4, 4 on the standards 2, 2 being placed higher than the hooks 5, 5 on the standards 3, 3. The hooks are made broad, approximately as wide as the standards, and each hook 4 gives support to the loop 6 of a doubled spiral spring hanger 7, the ends of which springs extend downwardly and are fastened to opposite ends of a horizontal cross bar or support 8, preferably made flat and somewhat wide to support the receptacle 9 which rests thereon. The cross bar 8, which is sustained 7, has its ends forked to straddle the standards 2, and it is to these forked ends that the ends of the springs 7 are attached.

A short distance below the cross bar 8, and

only by the springsat a right angle thereto is a second cross bar or support 10, similar to cross bar 8, carried at its forked ends by springs 11, alike in shape, size and strength to springs 7, and hung on the hooks 5, by a similar doubling of the springs.

The hooks 4 extend above the standards 2 in the form of cars to which a bail 12, for carrying the receptacle is connected.

The receptacle 9 may be of any size or shape, and made of any material suitable for the purpose. A few articles placed in the receptacle are yieldin ly supported by the springs 7, 7, but as the number of articles increases the springs extend and the cross bar 8 approaches the cross bar 10 and bears on it, adding the resilient property of the springs 11 which will be sufficient to easily carry a filled receptacle. The strength of the springs will be commensurate with the load to be carried so that fragile and easily injured articles may be transported over the roughest roads without injury. The number of springs and cross bars may be increased in proportion to the size of the receptacle so that the cumulative effect of the springs may be maintained whatever the weight carried in the receptacle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is 1. A device of the character described comprising parallel guides rigidly connected at one end, superposed normally non-contracting supports interposed between and slidably mounted on the guides, resilient connections between each support and its guides, and a receptacle mounted upon and movable with the upper support.

2. In a device of the character described. the combination with rigidly connected parallel guides; of superposed supports interposed between and slidably mounted on the guides, said supports being normally out of contact and disposed at angles to each other, separate spring hangers connecting the sup ports with the respective guides, and a receptacle mounted upon the upper supports.

3. In a device of the character described the combination with parallel rigidly connected guides; of superposed supports interposed between and slidably mounted on the guides, said supports being normally out of contact, a resilient hanger connecting each guide with one end of one of the supports, a

feesr AV mists COPY pended therefrom and sustaining a cross bar,- a receptacle upheld by said cross bar, and a second spring sustained cross bar below the first mentioned one.

and held against lateral movement by the guides, and a handle carried by the guides.

4. An article of the class described comprising a removable receptacle, a supporting In testimony that I claim the foregoing bar thereunder on which said receptacle as my own, I have hereto afliXed my signarests, springs for sustaining said supporting ture in the presence of two witnesses. bar, a second supporting bar below the first CHARLES H. CRONIQ and independent thereoi, and springs for sustaining said second supporting bar.

5. An article of the class described com prising a transportable frame, springs susreceptacle mounted upon the upper support WVitnesses. v

WILLIS WILsON, J. VJOARAWAY. 

